Walter & Group...
From Mac Brown :
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Mac .... Just to be clear: Is this a looped sleeve
connection to the end of the fly line similar to the one which Cortland
places in their line packages ? Or is it Gudebrod hollow-core
braided nylon monofilament line? I gave up on the Cortland
pre-looped ones for big game as I had several pull off. (May have
been my fault for not applying them expertly.)
I found that Gudebrod also makes a hollow-core Hi Viz Spectra backing
material. I've tried it and found no drawback except that the blaze
green dye bleeds off onto the fly line.
Another neat connection for light tackle (as I'm sure you know) is
the needle knot ... the one where the butt section is passed through the
center of the end of the fly line and a snug nail knot is made above the
pass-through segment. For obvious reasons, it won't work with heavy
nylon mono butt sections.
Gordy
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Fly Casting History ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Guy Manning sends some new information about the availability of Cliff Netherton's books from the ACEF : You
wrote: HISTORY
OF THE SPORT OF CASTING, Golden Years , Copyright 1983 by Cliff Netherton.
ISBN 0-905960-2-X. Also available in soft cover, ISBN
09605960-3-8. I
think this may also be available from the American Casting Education
Foundation. FFF Master
Certified Casting Instructor Moderator FFFCCI
Yahoo Group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Gordy
I found a couple more line dressing tins,
Silicote; line dressing for spinning and flylines (no rubbing or drying)
made in U.S.A. by Silicote Corp. Oshkosh Wis. and Cortland "333" flyline
cleaner, Cortland Line Co., inc Cortland N.Y. these might bring back
some memories !
Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rick....
Yes, they do! Mucilin, however, goes way back to
the time of the "gut" leaders. It was a mineral based material
mainly used for dressing flies, but many used it for the tippets as
well. I recall that it was made by a company in
England.
(The consumate fly angler would dry his fly on a patch of
amadou, a European fungus once used as a hydroscopic agent by
surgeons, and then dress it.)
The term, "gut" has been used to describe various
materials. In Treatytse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle
(Dame Juliana Berners) it was dyed horsehair. Samuel Pepys'
diary (1660 - 1669) mentioned fishing with a filament of gut string
stronger than a horsehair, and varnished. Either the material wasn't
described or the description was lost in the translation of the code in
which the diary had been written. Spanish silkworm
gut was used in the late 1700's.
I recall that the Japanese came out with what was called,
"synthetic gut" in the 1930's. I was told that this was a
rudimentary filament of what was later called Rayon (derived from wood
fibers). According to Ernie Schwiebert, however, it was really
twisted silk material which was saturated with a waterproofing gum. It was
terrible..... would come apart in salt water. It would split
longitudinally after many casts, too. *
Nylon (Du Pont Co.) was invented just prior to WWII and was
used for parachute cords during that war, but I don't recall it being
available as fishing line or monofilament nylon tippet material during the
war ... nor until about 1947. Present day nylon monofilaments have
improved dramatically during the past few years. One can now choose
nylon mono. materials of varied stiffness profiles, tensile strength,
"impact" tensile strength, colors, knot strengths, etc.,
etc.
"Catgut" used for suture material by surgeons was not made
from cats at all.... rather from collagen derived from sheep
intestines. (Although the elastic fibers in the ligamentum nuchae of
the neck of the cat is a remarkable material.)
After soaking to make it pliable enough to tie, "gut" leaders
were treated with all sorts of unctions often prepared by fly fishermen
themselves in addition to various proprietary concoctions including
Mucilin. The knot strength of the tippet material was poor and
unreliable. For this reason, my father (and many others) would snell
the tippet to the fly hook, ..... and then tie the
fly. I remember that some salmon flies came with the gut tippet
incorporated this way in the fly tie. Those fly hooks had no eye.
Some of the old British ones, had the gut material tied into the fly so as
to form a small gut loop which served as the eye. **
Rick .... Being a classic salmon fly tier, I'm sure you
know a lot more than I do about that.
It's interesting that one of the very latest tarpon flies is
tied this way. The shock tippet being snelled to the hook right
behind the eye. It is not passed through the eye. This is an
epoxy coated fly with the epoxy covering the snell knot as well as the
hook eye which become the head of an imitation Palolo worm. Credit goes to
Gordon Baggett of Florida for this clever and effective fly. He kept
it undisclosed and swore us to secrecy for quite a while before surpising
us by going public with it. ***
* TROUT by Ernest Schwiebert, p. 709.
** THE ATLANTIC SALMON, by Lee Wulff, p. 130
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*** Salt Water Fly Fisherman, Jan. / Feb., 2009, pp.
40-45, WORMING up a STORM, by Mike Mazur and p. 28,
STRAIGHTEN IT UP, by Gordon Baggett.
When tying and epoxying this fly, the tyer can elect to leave
the eye of the hook exposed or to bury it in the "worm
head".
The concept of the tippet snelled within the
fly fly gives strength to the old _expression_, "What goes around comes
around" !
Gordy
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